1914 Ottoman Empire

[eahaas73]

Who or has anyone survived and won playing the Ottomans 1914, normal/normal 1.05.1 update game? I've won 1914 normal/normal 1.05.1 German and Austria-Hungary games, but the Ottoman is proving to be impossible. Any critiques? Suggestions? Experience? Advise?

[brutus_bg]

Have tried a couple times and best achivement was to hold UK & company at Suez and establish a more or less stable frontline with Russians at the midst of the Caucasian mountains.
To do this, relied on mostly simple infantry (INF+Arty) with a couple CAV corps for mobility. Nothing fancy, nothing special & lagged behind in navy.

In your game the whole Central Powers team has assembled properly/ Austria knocked out Serbia quickly enough?

[Gnubbolo]

i played the 1914 not too much, i dont like.
i tried a game now, but with too many (diplomatic) errors to be considered valid.
to survive I remained neutral, then I corrupted France up to lvl 100, I became a democrat and in a moment I reached 200 diplomacy with France, then in 2018 I returned to dictatorship and joined the alliance. during the overwhelming attack Bulgaria withdrew from the central block. so Im left without a conquerable front.
1919 i am at war but i am isolated, develop navy to move troops and help france?

I had to make a claim on bulgaria, bribe France better. Bulgaria could be taken and advanced to the Balkans.
the ottoman empire is survivable, expand it mmm you have to play it for real, i dont want to do it tonight lol


and I repeat it to all noobs, SELL patents to third world nations

[eahaas73]

Thank You and you are correct about the brits. Damn. The last time I played, They knocked my troops back many spaces and I had them out numbered 1.73 to 1.

[Gnubbolo]

furious/normal joined the central power following the events.
germany won in russia. 16 june 1917 war ended. small territorial change for me ( added cyprus and armenia )

[eahaas73]

Ya'll are correct. Same difficulty. Annexed Kuwait immediately. Left 4 Inf there. 2 HQ, 14 Inf on the Russian Front. 6 Inf around the Bosporus. 2 each on the Lavant beaches. Rest and the Kav on the Suez Front. Pushed to the Suez and held the peninsula. Left 2 Kav there, in between, to help with the amphibious assaults from the sanai peninsula and Suez canal.. Slowly pushed into Baku and With the third kav and 2 Inf, pushed around the Southern Caspian. Got the despair down to 0. Built 5 Kav with engineers in order, not at the same time. Not enough IC. Got lucky. Russian fell. CCCP happened. Then Omsk took over. Moved russian front troops to the Suez. Then had to move HQ, 5 inf and 2 Kav to greece and 4 to Izmir (keep the italians away). Almost had greece, then france fell. I found out, it is good to have Kav in between the beaches on the Lavant. The australians would assault. Then a month later, the indians would assault the other beach. Same with the Suez and Sanai. The Kav would help out Sanai. Then a month later, help out the Suez. I don't remember the dates for this post.

[TaxOwlbear]

Late reply, but my prime issue with the Ottomans has always been that if Germany messes up, you lose as well, and there's not much you can do about it.

[eahaas73]

TaxOwlBear, you are correct. Playing the Hapsburg, I send the Oesterreich Kav to help out the capture of Belgium and Paris. Then go after Russia. What helped me out the most playing the Ottomans this last time, was Germany taking military control of the Oesterreich-Ungarn army. The ai did wonders.